REVENGE

Sia Declares War on Dry Cleaner

When life gives you lemons, it's best to hand them out to your 465,000 Twitter followers and collectively throw them at the windows of a small business. That appears, at least, to be Sia’s way of handling bad service.

After the “Chandelier” singer-songwriter extraordinaire had some of her “favorite things” ruined by a Queens dry cleaner (who hasn’t?), she turned to her online army for suggestions on how to exact “revenge” on the business. Eventually, she settled on her preferred form of payback, directing her hundreds of thousands of followers to write negative Yelp reviews of their service.

At the time of this writing, the Yelp page for the cleaner in question has a single one-star review, posted today, as well as photos of clothes being ruined. (Before we refreshed, the page was littered with negative reviews—it appears that Yelp, either automatically or by hand, may be scraping the fake reviews in realtime.)

This is a pretty mean and horrible thing for a pop star to do, right? No one likes having clothes ruined by dry cleaners, and the soiled items do always seem to be one’s favorite items, but that seems like a matter between one extremely wealthy Australian singer and a local business—best to leave your sycophantic followers out of it.